Postponement and recuperation of Belgian fertility: how are they related to rising female educational attainment?

Karel Neels; David De Wachter

doi:doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2010s77

Vienna Institute of Demography (Ed.)

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010

Contents:
Introduction
Bilal Barakat - Hans-Peter Blossfeld: The search for a demography of education: some thoughts

Demographic Debate
Wolfgang Lutz: Education will be at the heart of 21st century demography
Harvey J. Graff: The Literacy Myth: literacy, education and demography
Alaka Malwade Basu: Mass schooling, empowerment, and demographic and economic outcomes: a note of dissent

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Priska Flandorfer - Katrin Fliegenschnee: Education and health: theoretical considerations based on a qualitative grounded theory
Martin Spielauer: Persistence and change of the relative difference in educational attainment by ethno-cultural group and gender in Canada
Eduardo Luiz Gonçalves Rios-Neto - Raquel Rangel de Meireles Guimarães: The demography of education in Brazil: inequality of educational opportunities based on Grade Progression Probability (1986-2008)

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Postponement and recuperation of Belgian fertility: how are they related to rising female educational attainment?

Karel Neels,

David De Wachter

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010, pp. 77-106, 2010/12/22

doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2010s77

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Abstract

Fertility trends in Europe after 1970 are routinely referred to in terms of the postponement of fertility. The shortening of the effective reproductive lifespan and its association with post-materialist values have raised questions as to whether fertility can or will be recuperated. Decomposition of cohort fertility in Belgium by level of education shows that the postponement of fertility after 1970 is closely related to the expansion of education: compared with cohorts born in 1946-1950, 40 to 50 per cent of the difference in cumulated fertility at age 25 in the 1951-1975 birth cohorts is attributable to rising educational levels. Educational differentials also prove relevant with regard to the recuperation of fertility at older ages as the tempo and quantum of order-specific fertility have responded differently to variations in the economic and policy context, depending on the educational level considered. Differential fertility trends by level of education have thus attenuated the relationship between female educational attainment and completed fertility in recent cohorts.

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Vienna Institute of Demography (Ed.)

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010

Postponement and recuperation of Belgian fertility: how are they related to rising female educational attainment?

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